Holmes was startled, glanced at everyone in the room, struggled a little in his mind, and chose to open the door.
Outside the door, Conan's eyes narrowed and he saw another face that surprised him.
Dr. Ali?
No, it should be
"Watson, I'll hold them back while you take Irene and the others and escape through the back door!"
Holmes took out the pistol from his waist and ran to the right.
Watson took out his revolver and ran to the left.
For a moment, Conan and the others in the room were left unattended.
Conan quickly gritted his teeth, opened his eyes wide, and pushed Mao Lilan, who was already drowsy next to him.
"Xiaolan!"
"Wake up!"
After a few vigorous pushes, Mao Lilan, who fell to the ground, opened her eyes sleepily.
"Sister Xiaolan, take everyone and leave quickly through the back door!"
"Let's gather at the spawn point of yesterday's game!"
Mao Lilan was stunned for a moment and asked: "What about you?"
"I'm going to see Sherlock Holmes."
After saying that, Conan ran out of the room and ran towards the right side of the corridor without looking back.
In the long and narrow backstage passage, Conan ran desperately towards the stage.
Although Holmes failed to live up to his ardent hopes, Conan still couldn't help but feel nervous about Holmes' fate.
According to Qin Zhibo, Holmes is an anarchist and a restorationist in this world.
This shows that Holmes and Lestrade, the defender of government order, are fundamentally from two camps.
Moreover, the timing of Lestrade's appearance was also coincidental.
If the magic modification of Noah's Ark still adheres to the original setting, Lestrade himself should be very mediocre.
With Lestrade's strength, he should not be able to catch Holmes.
Unless someone snitches
Conan thought for a while, and the most likely person to do this was Qin Zhibo.
Qin Zhibo had been leaving the team since the morning, not knowing what he was doing.
In addition, he had already read the original novel of this game, so he naturally knew that Holmes was a member of this troupe and that there would be a performance tonight.
This way a trap can be set.
Thinking of this, Conan felt a little complicated.
Although what Qin Zhibo did was entirely to clear the game, for some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable.
Imagine that if Mao Lilan is eliminated from the game, he will definitely lose his fighting spirit.
In the final analysis, Conan cannot be so open-minded as to regard everything at the moment as a game.
The realism of the game itself, Noah's Ark's practice of forcibly binding human lives to pass levels, and the faces of loved ones appearing in the game characters
All these prevent Conan from facing this game calmly as Qin Zhibo said.
Running from the backstage to the front stage, Conan saw Holmes confronting Lestrade and others.
Holmes stood under the spotlight in the middle of the stage, like a hero about to take his final call.
"Sir Sheriff, tonight's performance is all over."
"If you still want to watch the show, please come early tomorrow."
The police officers in the audience, wearing uniform black cloaks and British police helmets, surrounded Sherlock Holmes on the stage in a fan shape.
The leading police officer is slightly chubby and has a fat face. He is Officer Mumu with a British police chief mustache.
I saw "Officer Megure" in the audience holding a pistol and pointing it at "Yusaku Kudo" on the stage.
This picture is so "beautiful" that I can't even imagine it.
Conan hid on the side of the stage and watched this scene quietly.
I saw Lestrade take two steps forward and shouted: "Holmes, just capture him without any effort!"
"Are you the murderer of Prince Franz?"
At this moment, a figure stepped forward from behind Lestrade.
"I want to correct you, Lestrade."
"He was not the one who killed the prince. It was the lame doctor next to him who really did it."
"If I guess correctly, his name should be Watson, right?"
"But there is no doubt that there is a collusive relationship between them."
Conan took a closer look and saw that the owner of this figure was not Qin Zhibo, but the hook-nosed Moriarty.
Why Moriarty?
Conan's eyes flashed with confusion and confusion.
Holmes stared at Moriarty without saying a word.
Moriarty took another step forward and continued to talk, "Actually, from the beginning, I restored everything at that time through on-site analysis."
"Our prince was brought into the room with the 'lame doctor' through a 'tall' man, and then was dismembered to a gruesome level."
"The prince did not resist during the whole process. Judging from the frequency of the tentacles swinging on the road, the prince was very happy physically and mentally."
"As long as you do a little research on the ancestry of the German ruling class, you will know that this German prince is the son of a certain collateral ruler and a human. He has 3/4 human blood and has an inexplicable fetish for human women."
"Then what makes the prince so happy? The answer to this question is readily apparent."
"It's just who set such a sinister trap for the prince. This question has troubled me all night."
"Until last night some strangely dressed visitors came to my house and provided me with ideas for solving the problem."
Conan, who was hiding on the side of the stage, was shocked. It seemed that the visitors who visited 221B last night were himself and others.
Moriarty continued: "I have very good hearing. Even on the second floor, I can hear conversations on the first floor."
"Last night, a little boy told my landlady at the door that he wanted to see Mr. Holmes."
"Holmes, such an ancient name, it reminds me of it."
"Two years ago, I discussed the article I published in "The Movement of Asteroids" with a person whose letter was signed as 'Holmes'."
"In the correspondence, this 'Holmes' has unique insights into theoretical issues that are beyond ordinary people, and even has some dangerous ideas of restorationism."
"But unfortunately, through graphological analysis, I can only come to the two conclusions that 'Holmes' is a gentleman and that he is a tall man about six feet tall."
"This is really strange. I don't understand why anyone would think that I could see Sherlock Holmes at my residence, but it does provide some reference directions for the prince's murder."
"I transferred the investigative powers of the case to these people, and then used my spies all over London to track their actions."
"Because I know that this group of people will definitely help me find 'Holmes'."
"As for determining whether "Sherlock Holmes" is the murderer, you only need to spend some money to bribe the ticket seller outside the theater, and you can know all the interesting facts about the theater members."
"Including whether there is a doctor with a slight limp in his left leg and a short stature."
After Moriarty's reasoning was completed, Holmes' expression on the stage was still relatively calm.
But Conan next to the stage was not calm anymore.
It turned out that he had betrayed Holmes invisibly?
When I knocked on the door of room 221B last night, I said the name "Holmes" myself.
Moriarty, who was on the second floor, was able to use this as a clue to recall what happened two years ago, and then deduce some clues to track his actions until he caught Holmes?
Sure enough, he is the man Holmes regards as his biggest rival!
Conan looked at Moriarty in disbelief, and looked at "Yusaku Kudo" on the stage a little apologetically.
Feel sorry
Holmes on the stage didn't know that his son was cheating on him, so he calmly opened his palms.
"It seems that you have mastered all the information you can know."
"I have to admit that you are indeed a formidable and respectable opponent."
"That's why I took the initiative to show up."
Before Holmes finished speaking, his right hand suddenly pulled out the pistol from his waist and shot at Moriarty.
Pia——
"professor!"
Colonel Moran next to him roared and threw himself at Moriarty.
The trajectory of the bullet grazed Moriarty's shoulder. Although there was some blood, it was only a superficial wound.
Lestrade looked at Moriarty who fell to the ground, his face was startled, and he immediately ordered his men.
"shot!"
All the police officers raised their guns and pointed them at Holmes on the stage.
At this critical moment, the huge curtain above the stage suddenly fell, separating Holmes from the police officers in the audience.
Holmes was startled and looked aside.
Conan on the side of the stage was waving to Holmes, with a very eager expression on his face.
Holmes paused for half a second before running away in Conan's direction.
At the same time, the police's bullets also poured in, shooting towards the curtain.
Pia×n
When dozens of gunshots were fired and the police emptied all the bullets in their magazines, the police led by Lestrade climbed onto the stage to reveal the behind-the-scenes scene.
However, the injured Holmes was not found behind the curtain.
"He ran away?"
Lestrade's brain reacted for a moment before he said this obvious thing.
Moriarty covered the wound on his shoulder and climbed onto the stage with the help of Moran, making sure that the man who shot him had run away and was not playing some trick under the lights.
"They could only escape through the back door of the theater."
"Lestrade, didn't I ask you to deploy people at the back door?"
Lestrade was startled for a moment and nodded innocently.
At this time, a policeman ran over to report.
"Sir Sheriff, everyone in the theater troupe ran away from the back door!"
"What?"
Moriarty looked surprised, an expression he had never seen before.
The police continued to report, "There is a sharpshooter in the troupe who is always accurate."
"There was also a girl who used strange kung fu and had a horn on her head, and injured many of our police officers."
Moriarty looked surprised. The encirclement he had asked the police to set up in advance could not even catch some old, young, women and children.
Five!
Five!
Lestrade looked at Moriarty's accusing eyes, feeling a little aggrieved and said weakly.
"You can't blame me for this."
"Today there is a terrorist in the city. He goes around robbing passers-by, robbing banks, and raping women. He does absolutely everything."
"A large number of police officers from our London Police Department have gone to arrest the criminal. We really can't find more manpower."
Moriarty: "."
At this moment, another police officer ran in and reported.
"Sir, the Arc de Triomphe Hotel was attacked by a bomb! There were heavy casualties in the hotel!"
"According to eyewitness reports, it was also 'Crazy Jack' who did it!"
It is a local custom in London to give unknown criminals the title "Act+Jack".
For example, "Spring Heeled Jack" and "Jack the Ripper".
And this "Mad Jack" swept through the entire criminal world of London in just one day, going down to the slums and up to the rich areas, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil.
Because of his almost crazy, criminal behavior without any sign or pattern, as well as his high-frequency criminal actions, which seemed to have unlimited energy, he was dubbed the "madman".
Mad Jack is the name of this criminal.
While Lestrade was having a headache about "Crazy Jack", Moriarty next to him also had some more thoughts.
Arc de Triomphe Hotel?
It seems to be the hotel where the Miskatonic University debate team is staying.
In other words, tomorrow's debate competition will be cancelled?
The real world, the game venue of Cocoon.
Since Kudo Yusaku, Megure and others had to maintain order at the scene, they simply stayed here.
The staff sent a portable device similar to a flat-panel monitor, which can also observe the situation in the game.
When Mu Mu looked at Lestrade who looked like him in the game, he couldn't help but feel puzzled.
This character is designed to look like Yazi who is not very smart.
Brother Kudo, is this what I look like in your mind?
Kudo Yusaku next to him looked at the current status of the game on his tablet and couldn't help but frown.
This game has completely exceeded my expectations.
Not only did it use the settings from "A Study of Green Letters", but the behavioral logic of the characters was also very different from the original settings.
And regarding the duel between Holmes and Moriarty, even in "A Study in the Green Letter", there is no plot about the two confronting each other head-on.
What is going on?
Kudo Yusaku picked up the phone and dialed Dr. Agasa's number.
"Dr. Ali, you said before that a lot of file data was added to the game that was not originally there, right?"
Dr. A Li nodded, "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Can you check the source of this data?"
Dr. Ali thought for a moment and replied: "Yes, but it will take a little time."
"It doesn't matter, as long as we can find out."
Kudo Yusaku hung up the phone and continued to sort out his thoughts in his mind.
There are three main problems facing us now.
One is whether Conan and the others can clear the game, which is related to the lives of 51 people.
The second is the test of the dagger. As long as the blood reaction can be detected, it can basically be determined that the murderer is Chairman Sindora.
Three are game files. Why did such a huge amount of data suddenly increase?
As the launch date approaches, the game version should be very solid.
Even if Noah's Ark temporarily hacks into the system to make modifications, it should only be simple deletions based on the source files, and it is impossible to carry out such a huge modification project.
